Communal Violence and Democratization in Indonesia: Small Town Wars

ISBN-13: 9780415417136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 184 str.

Gerry Van Klinken

Opis

Through close scrutiny of empirical materials and interviews, this book uniquely analyzes all the episodes of long-running, widespread communal violence that erupted during Indonesia's post-New Order transition. Indonesia democratised after the long and authoritarian New Order regime ended in May 1998. But the transition was far less peaceful than is often thought. It claimed about 10,000 lives in communal (ethnic and religious) violence, and nearly as many as that again in separatist violence in Aceh and East Timor. Taking a comprehensive look at the communal violence that arose after the New Order regime, this book will be of interest to students of Southeast Asian studies, social movements, political violence and ethnicity.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Why Now? Temporal Contexts  3. Why Here? The Town beyond Java  4. Identity Formation in West Kalimantan  5. Escalation in Poso  6. Mobilization in Ambon  7. Polarization in North Maluku  8. Actor Constitution in Central Kalimantan  9. Concluding Reflections

O autorze

Gerry van Klinken is a Research Fellow at KITLV/ Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, The Netherlands.